I Create Mind-Bending Pictures To Make You Look Twice

My name is Monica Carvalho and I love creating photomanipulations to confuse your brain.

Coming up with impossible ‘scenes’ to give people a double take has been my passion for the past 5 years. All my edits are produced on Photoshop, using my own photographs (no stock images).

In my inspiration process, I try to find similarities between photos in terms of colour, texture and shape. For example, two mountain peaks I shot in Greece reminded me of an upper lip; a path in Oxford had the same colour as my skin; a pouch zip evoked eyelashes.

Other times I also like playing with sizes – my miniature friends ‘buried’ in my hand; the Empire State Building turned into a giant candle.

The titles of my artworks tend to be either puns, or weird/ unrelated words to puzzle people even more.

I hope you enjoy my crazy works!

More info: Instagram

Eye got you

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Your words move mountains

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A stretch of the imagination

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Empire state candle

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Buried in the shand

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Diamond Treason

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Fiz De Propósito

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A mountain latte please

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I know you like the back of my sand

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Preheat The Oven

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C’est La Vie

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Das Ist Mir Wurst

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“I shut my eyes in order to see” – Gauguin

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I walk a lonely chord…

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Stir Well

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Pickled Money

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Go where the road takes you

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Love is the swanswer

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Mouldy Plum Cake

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Real eyes realise real lies

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Acoustic Heartbeat

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a forest for rest

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À Courte Vue

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“We are captives of our own identities, living in prisons of our own creation” T.B.